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Artists need to get over it, period. If you put your image online, someone can rip off its style. It has nothing to do with prompting per se. If you can not accept this, hide your art from the public. The current systems are very far from reducing your work to a prompt. There are many problems that are unsolved, a lot of curation is necessary, and in the end the flaws in the details will still be visible. If that was…
> The current systems are very far from reducing your work to a prompt. There are many problems that are unsolved, a lot of curation is necessary, and in the end the flaws in the details will still be visible. If that was good enough for your client, too bad, but they never needed your work to begin with. Exactly. The current systems are very far from reducing your work to a prompt. However, I'm sure the current stat…
I am no more sympathetic to illustrators losing work to AI than I am to baristas losing work to a vending machine.
I also expect no sympathy should software development jobs be automated away, that would only be fair considering the colossal amount of resources we waste, just because we can.
We have never and will never run out of jobs, and there will be no AI monopolies unless we let regulators create them.